<div dir="ltr">As Jonathan Giroux said many users prefer to save their preferences on the cloud for convenience. I use Blender on two computers and every time I update to a new version I need to add again my custom layouts, my custom start-up file and change a lot of settings. I know I could use symlinks, I used junction in the past for that but that's just hacking and not all users have the skills or the time to do that and they shouldn't have to. At work I cannot use the Dropbox client, I use only the web version so symlinks not an option. So the whole symlink solution is just a workaround for the "problem" not a proper solution from may point of view.<div>I don't think it is should be seen as a strong privacy violation either, users are using Dropbox or other cloud storing services again for the convenience they provide and it is their choice to do so. If we enable them to use and add-on to do that (or even provide the option in settings) it is their choice to use it or not.</div><div>What I'm doing right now is investigating what this undertaking involves. Frankly I am surprised that no one has already implemented something like that, or maybe I didn't searched enough?!</div><div>For convenience still, I believe that Blender needs a nice integrated add-on store or repository but that's another topic I will raise later :)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Jonathan Giroux <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bloutiouf@gmail.com" target="_blank">bloutiouf@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Some large applications have switched towards putting user prefs "on the cloud" for UX purposes. It makes sense to make such a system for Blender. However I believe Blender cultivates the hack spirit, and trying to put user information remotely would be seen as a strong privacy violation, especially in these days.</div><div><br></div><div>Personally I'm using ownCloud to do this, I'm even thinking about versioning it with git.</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Todd McIntosh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:todd@resonancemedia.ca" target="_blank">todd@resonancemedia.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Do you think and addon is
necessary to do that? I know some people already that just put their
userpref.blend file in dropbox and then put an alias/shortcut/symlink in
their Blender folder. That way it syncs every time Blender is started.<br>
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<div style="color:#888888;margin-left:24px;margin-right:24px"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I
want to implement an add-on for Blender to sync<font color="#404040" face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18.2000007629395px">hronize user preferences
and start-up file to the user's Dropbox account. I already have
experience with Dropbox API as I implemented a full client for Symbian
in the past (<a href="http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/reviews/item/12888_cuteBox.php" target="_blank">cuteBox</a>)
but I would like some guidance to the Python API for Blender and
writing Blender add-ons in the first place. Is it possible to be
notified inside the add-on when the settings have been changed by the
user and trigger a sync? (is there a callback or hook or something?)</span></font></div><div><font color="#404040" face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18.2000007629395px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#404040" face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18.2000007629395px">Thanks,</span></font></div><div><font color="#404040" face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18.2000007629395px">Catalin</span></font></div></div>
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